From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:55:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030308215506.A881@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4dn6d$go8$1@cesium.transmeta.com>; from hpa@zytor.com on Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:26:37PM -0800
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:26:37PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> We need it if anything even more for character devices. Character
> devices are under even more allocation pressure, and just look at the
> ugly hacks we've already had to play for e.g. tty devices.
Yes. That's why the work applied to block devices already needs to
be done to character device too and as a side-effect we get an
almost 32bit dev_t clean tree, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-08 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-08 0:57 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 0:53 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <20030308073407.A24272@infradead.org>
2003-03-08 19:29 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-08 21:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-03-08 21:41 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 22:16 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-10 17:31 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 23:37 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 23:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 5:08 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-03-17 19:21 ` Steven Dake
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-08 20:59 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 21:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:26 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-08 20:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:50 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 19:32 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 22:12 ` Greg KH
2003-03-07 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:45 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:50 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:05 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-08 1:03 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-09 2:02 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-10 4:46 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-03-08 15:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 19:37 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 19:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 20:00 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 20:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 22:55 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-07 22:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-07 23:38 ` John Cherry
2003-03-07 23:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-07 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-07 23:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-08 1:49 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 1:58 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 2:15 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-08 2:42 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 19:31 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 21:39 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-08 21:59 ` Greg KH
2003-03-08 1:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-09 4:32 ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-09 5:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-03-07 18:49 Andries.Brouwer
2003-03-07 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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